Fresh (non cached) dig

[Stephen Ward]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:24:04 +0000, Chris Thompson wrote:

> On Jan 5 2009, John Wobus wrote:
> 
>>                                    [...] There is no nameserver
>>                                    operation
>>that dig could do to tell a caching nameserver to act differently for
>>one query.  You could clear the nameserver's cache, or even clear the
>>one name you are interested in out of the cache.
> 
> You can use +norecurse and check whether the AA bit is set in the reply.
> Even quite old versions of BIND will not set the AA bit in the response
> if the answer is from the cache, in this case.

Thanks for this Chris. I never knew that. And Todd, that is just what the 
doctor ordered!



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